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6 And there was a a partying and a popping of flashbulbs down at the Daily Mirror/Radio One/Nationwide Rock And Pop Awards (as seen on TV). The place was sardined with celebs; the famous. the talented, the beautiful, Dave Lee Travis . . . Fizzy drinks flowed, cheese dip went down by the tubload, and Engraved Discs were pressed into many a deserving palm. Best Album - " Dare", Best Single - "Vienna" , Most Outstanding Musical Personality-Adam, Best Female Vocalist-Toyah, Best Male Vocalist- Shakin' Stevens, and they kept on coming. Our cameras, meanwhile, took a penetrating peek at some of the familiar faces . . . Haze treats Kim and Toyah to an extract from her latest single. Obviously a crowd-pleaser.
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The Midge Ure story-one he thrashing round the clubs laughingly describes as "a churning out ambitious covers of journey from obscurity to Bowie's "Cracked Actor" and stardom and back to obscurity "Life On Mars' (imagine that again" - began on October 10 without an orchestra), but to no 1953. avail. It was soul-destroying. Home was in Carnbuslang, a "We were like a human crumbling outpost of Glasgow, in juke-box!" a street full of condemned Almost overnight, the spotlight four-storey tenement buildings switched back to Scotland. A pair lit by flickering gas-lights. His of hawk-eyed music moguls by Dad was - and still is - a the name of Bill Martin and Phil long-distance van-driver, his Coulter, who had skilfully Mum a housewife and. amid the crafted sugary pop anthems for trickle of the stream that ran both The Bay City Rollers and beneath the tloorboards, he Kenny, were eagerly scouting faintly recalls hearing the rustle around for another bunch of of rats. wholesome, chirpy Scots lads to By the age of 14 he'd bought a fashion into teen-idols. guitar on hire purchase, formed a By this stage Salvation were "pretty ropey'' group called desperate enough to play along. Stumble along with some school "It was that or nothing," Midge friends and was entertaining reflects gloomily. They changed local scout halls on Saturday their name to Slik, ferried up a afternoons with lashings of stock of baseballshirts and With Slik in 1976. Not much money but "I wouldn't have missed it for contemporary pop. Stuff like Eric drainpipe jeans from the King's the world." Clapton, John Mayall's Road, London, lopped off their Bluesbreakers, Jeff Beck and locks and inked a contract that early Fleetwood Mac; however would supply them with songs, classic photograph which well. And in '76, when "roclc" was he always hankered "to be in a production and studio time. They seemed to sum up the whole a term usually employed to band like The Small Faces". were simply required to tum up thing. Us leaving the New describe well-heeled superstars Two-and-a-half years as an and sing and received, for their Victoria Theatre in this posing about with extremely apprentice engineer passed pains, a meagre 3% of the limousine, police holding back expensive stage sets before before he secured a place in the earnings. the crowds and everything, and acres of their adoring disciples, Scots cabaret outfit, Salvation But it worked. As a there's this one girl actually raw club-level Pop/Rock was in (who featured Kenny Hyslop in hastily-penned paperback on the clinging onto to the short supply. Sowhen the daily the drum seat, later to join band somewhat colourfully windscreen-wiper as we're papers dropped Slik like a hot Simple Minds). Fairly well observed: "Instantly driving awayl" brick, the Music Weeklies picked established north of the border, teenyboppem plunged deep into up on them. One such rag was unheard of south, Salvation were a new love affair with these Of course it didn't last. "How even to proclaim dramatically: firmly rooted in the club-circuit classy-loolcing, smooth-image could it? When you've had an "The Queens Are Dead - Long tradition that was the training new pop idols that took Britain by instant Number One and the Live The Kings!" (For "Queens" ground for bands like The Bay stonn". follow-up doesn't make it. you've read The Rollers; for "Kings", City Rollers. All studded cowboy Which was true, up to a point. failed. You're finished." On May Slik). But it didn't help their shirts, kipper lies, flash jackets, OnJanuary 17, '76thenation's 8, when their second outing, record sales. painfully tight denims and long, radios crackled to the sound of a "Requiem", only managed to One reporter who kept the bouncy, centre-parted hair. new Number One, Slik's "Forever scrape the 24 slot, the bubble had band In particularly sharp focus And Ever". and suddenly the already burst. was Caroline Coon. In the It was hardly the best time to be quartet were being jetted all over Ironically, the band's saving Sum.mer of '76, Slik released a a Scottish pop singer. The the UK, doing TV appearances, grace was their live show. Unlike lamentable chant entitled ''The sudden meteoric rise of David interviews, photo sessions, The Rollers and the reset of the Kid's A Punk", which rejoiced in Bowie had helped cement record generally whooping it up while manufactured bubble-gum the couplet: "Hey hey, hear company opinion that London being chased around by bands, Slik were already a what I say/Looks Just like James was the current nerve-centre. thousands of screaming teenage fully-fledged rock band with a Dean/". Coon, a one-time hippy They would no more travel north girls. "It was great," Midge few years hard graft behind them figurehead and soon to manage to discover new talent than fly to admits. "I wouldn't have missed and could actually play their The Clash, splashed a the moon. Salvation continued it for the world. There was one instruments. And play them very double-page Slik feature across 13 the pages ot Melody Maker. But they weren't going to get it. She loved the clothes, went wild Midge had scarcely had a chance about the haircuts, adored the to put his feet up when the whole image - which Midge telephone rang. It was EMI described as "'30s American Records in London calling on street punk" - and alerted her behalf of Glen Matlock. Freshly readers to the poBBibility of "A expelled from the Pistols - Pop-Punic Phenomenon!" partly due to his "distasteful" Six months later she was to pop leanings - Matlock was reBBurect the word "punk" again, currently herding together a few on hearing the unmistakable kindred spirits and Caroline strains of The Sex Pistols. And Coon had suggested he try when the Pistols arrived, pop Midge. Midge left for England, bands like Slik were out of a job. saw the band rehearse, reckoned Which was ironical, to say the them "pathetic" and got the first least. It was, in fact, Midge that train back home. Malcolm McLaren accosted way Three months later he took back in '75 when piecing together another look, noted an his Pistols prototype. McLaren improvement, and was shortly had already enlisted Cook and ensconced in a pokey Jones and was on the hunt for a £28-per-week bed-sit in Maida possible u:ontman when he spied Vale hastily tuning his guitar. a likely candidate coming out of The Rich Kids - as they were A Rich Kid in 1978, with (left to.right) Steve New, Rusty Egan and Glen Matlock. a Glasgow guitar shop. He inappropriately titled - were "A cross between The Bay City Rollers and The Sex Pistols," they said. offered him a job on account of EMI's great white hope. On paper his revolutionary short hair, tight it looked infallible: "a cross," as down the chord sequences on a phrysalis and, when Billy Currie trousers and jacket with they put it, "between The Bay piece of paper. He finished a had made enough money upturned collar. a defiant stance City Rollers and The Sex Pistols". two-and-a-half week US tour working with Gary Numan to in the Age of the Flared Trouser. A brilliant idea. And, of course, with them although the secure some new equipment, ''He never once asked me if I was utterly doomed. All the press and headlining act, hippy they.,penci!Jed in a tentative a musician," muses Midge, public wanted in the spring of '78 power-rockers Journey, thought four-date tour. known to friends as "Mr. were spotty fourth-rate Clash him a little bit weird. With his The new Ultravox arrived at Sensible" at the time. "I thought impersonators moaning about short hair, padded shoulder Eric's, Liverpool, to find "3000 there was something a little the Government. When The Rich jacket, bizarre sunglasses and people queueing up outside". suspicious about it." Kids stepped out on stage with baggy leather trousers, be didn't And the rest, I'm sure you'll The Pistols connection was their "floppy Beatie cuts" - quite look the part. agree, is History. eventually made, but not as Matlock, Midge, Rusty Egan on Back in London Midge met up originally planned. With the drums and 17 year-old Steve New again with Rusty Egan who was unshakable "teen-idol" millstone on guitar, dressed in what opening up a new club in Soho Today Midge is fast becoming still hanging round their necks, appeared to be a blue and pink called Billy's, along with a young one of pop's new league of Elder . the band eventually broke their fluffy bedspread - they were Welsh bon vlveurnamed Steve Statesmen. And it's hardly contract with Martin and Coulter, applauded with abuse from all Strange. Here you could absorb a undeserved. Ultravox sell which meant they weren't legally sides. Nobody wanted to know new type of music: Bowie, records all over the world - allowed to work in the UK under them. Least of all EMI. By now Kraftwerk, early Ultravox, Roxy they've even managed to crack the name Slik. They fled across they'd discovered a gold-mine in Music. After braving the horrors the lucrative Japanese market the channel and spent the rest of Kate Bush and the Tom Robinson of all the trendy punk clubs, a after "New Europeans" was used '76 and half of '77 flogging round Band and were all too keen to night among Billy's elegantly on a Tokyo whisky advert - and Scandinavia and Europe playing wash their hands of the whole dressed clientele, Midge their videos are widely imitated. to anyone who'd pay to listen. affair. remembers, "wae rather like In fact Midge has started Finally they returned to Scotland The Rich Kids were left high dying and then waking up in making videos himself, along and released their swansong, and dry. Midge wanted to Heaven!" with Chris Cross. The pair are "Gonna Put You In The Picture", expand their sound with responsible for both the "Yellow on the Zoom label under an synthesisers; Matlock wanted to After trying out some synthesiser Pearl" video (which of course aBBumed name. Trading as use a brass section. It was music, and seeing bands on the Midge co-wrote) and one for the PVC2, and featuring future Skid useless carrying on so they circuit like the Yellow Magic new Visage single, "The Damned Russel Webb on bass, the single called it quits, Midge remaining Orchestra-"the music of the Don't Cry". Now they're planning has - to date -been the label's behind to use up what was left of future," he'd observed at the time to go into movies; there's a film in biggest seller. Bigger than their pre-paid studio time. - he went back in the studio the pipeline - starring and anything by Simple Minds. Even While lawyers wrestled to free with Rusty, Steve and various co-directed by Midge - about in America avid Midge fans have him from his five years EMI friends including Billy Currie of Glasgow in the 1920's. managed to secure copies and contract, the phone was to ring Ultravox. Theresultingtapes At 28 he describes himself as have brought them along after yet again. This time it was an were offered to EMI under the "the ultimate bachelor", _concerts to be autographed. SOS u:om Thin Lizzy in America. name Visage and promptly comfortably well off with a 16 Guitarist Gary Moore had failed turned down. Midge then offered year-old Porsche sports car and a In mid '77, Slik disbanded. to turn up for a couple of gigs and them his solo tracks, which fared hou.se in London full of tasteful "There was no alternative. In the they desperately needed a no better. '20s furniture and art deco end it was like having a wet stand-in. Hours later, Midge was Eventually Billy left at the end ornaments. Somehow this seems blanket thrown over you, The on Concorde listening to Lizzy's of '78 to tour America with at odds with its owner, who likes enthusiasm was all gone. People "Live And Dangerous" LP on Ultravox. They arrived as a to wander round off-duty need time to forget all that and headphones and scribbling five-piece and returned as a trio. unshaved and wearing an old take you for what you really are." After "dropping heavy hints" rollneck sweate-r, thick cord about being a b:ee agent, Billy, trousers and a pair of brown Chris Cross, Warren Cann and leather brogue shoes, a look - Midge assembled in a rehearsal much like Ultravox in general studio and, in only three days, that suggests slightly scuffed managed to write over half the elegance. matetial for the 'Vienna" album. This, he admits, is typical. "I'd So in early '79 they joined really like to buy this 1 forces. And why not? If the unbelievably stylish '30s I "classic" combination of Midge American car I've got my eye on .. ; . .. and Matlock - two lauded but I can't 'cos it's about a quarter ~ heroes in the public eye - had of a million pounda." c:l been such a disaster, the.n surely "Anyway, alter about a week i Midge and Ultravox - both dead it'd have a few MacDonald, < ducks according to the press - cartons kicking around lnside," i could hardly fare much worse. he chuckles, "10 what's the ~ fJ They signed a record deal with point?" 8
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Hu9h Cornwell, a recent visitor to the charts with "Golden Brown", is about to take to the Remember "The Secret boards in an acting role. Entitled Pollcemaa '■ Ball", a Charity "Charlie's Last Sta.nd", the 25 Show for Amnesty international? minute play will be staged at The Well they've had another one, Almeida Theatre, Almeida with another film and LP to boot. Street, London N. l. on April 4. It's the usual "galaxy of stars" Hugh's sharing the spotlight with stuf.f and this time features Bob "Long Good Friday" famous faces from the last fifteen Hoskyns. years of pop music. Trouble is, the emphasis seems to be firmly on the older mob. II you haven't _HAPP Y heard of guita rists Jef.f Beck and Eric Clapton, or '60s cosmic minstrel Donovan, then you'll B I RTHDAY have ample opportunity to catch up. 17th Ma.rch: Clan Gro9an (20) Slightly nearer the present day 19th March: Terry Hall (23) are Phil Collins - who delivers a 25th March: Elton Joba (35) sterling solo version of '1n The 26th March: Suanae S■ley Air Tonight" - and Bob Geldof (19), Di-• Ron (38). and Johnnie Fingers warbling •;1 Don't Like Mondays". All of Some people re/use to believe which pale■ In comparison with that punk's passed on and most Sling's spine-tingling _readings of of them have got together to "Roxanne" and "Message In A compile an album. Called Bottle", accompanied by a gentle "Paak And Disorde rly'', it's six-stringed strumming. a deafening deluge of New Punk There is, of cou.rse, a g.rand Pioneers generously pressed finale as well. A sort of "massed onto a £3.99 LP. 16 spirited tracks ranks" number featuring a vast from such lumina.ries as Vice band with Phil Collins, Chris Squad, Disrupters, Blitz, The Cross, Midge Ure, Donovan, Insane, Chaos UK, Outcasts, Sheena Easton, Geldof and Tom Disorder and Peter And The Teat Robinson providing the backing Tube Babies. vocals. Hope they got more than If it's laughter you're after, look one dressing room. elsewhere.
Blondie have recorded another a lbum. No great aurprlae, this reunion, as the Debbie Harry solo career went of.f with more of a whimper than a bang. The LP's untitled as yet and should be out in early May, around the time Deb and Chris Stein are rumoured to be landing in England to promote "Snapper" Stein's book of photos, "Making Tracks". He and Deb are supposedly meant to be doing the old 'Grand Entry" bit by arriving in a hovercraft at the Thameside studio that'■ exhibiting The new••••••• album remains under wraps but we do hear 1torie■ the Stein snaps. about a church choir plus orcheatra being used on a song called "The We shall see. Apple Tree". Sound• like a long way from "Cool For Ca ta" . . . 16 GO GO FOR GOLD
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Ever dreamed of a living room like Paul McCartney? No plaster ducks, no wallpaper; just gold discs in tidy rows. Well here's your chance to make a start because The Go-Go's have very kindly donated a gold disc of their "Beauty And The Beat" album, awarded to them for more than 500,000 sales of said LP in the United States. This great glittering round thing will be not only mounted but also inscribed with the winner's name. Twenty-five runners-up will be receiving picture discs of the latest Go-Go's 45, "Automatic". And all this can be yours if you anwers one simple question. Which act has had the most number one singles in Britain - Cliff Richard, Blondie or The Beatles? TAKE A BO~✓ Dot the answer down on a •• postcard with your name and Two questions. First - did you know that BowWowWow's "See address and send it to Go-Go's Jungle . .... LP has been re-issued and includes an extra track, "The Competition, Smash Hits, 52-55 Joy Of Eating Raw Flesh"? Oh, you did. Camaby St., London WIV !PF to Second - did you know we've got a bunch of cassette versions to arrive on or before March 31st. give away free? Well you do now! 25 of them. And all you have to do to acquire one is to peruse the following perplexing puzzle. One of the following is true. Which? a) Annabella Lwin was discovered singing in a Kentucky Fried Chicken shop; b) Leroy TO \·/ORK Gorman used to play guitaz with The UK Subs; c) Dave Barbarossa played drums on ''Deutscher Gizls"; d) "Go Wild In The Country" was inspired by a picnic in Milton Keynes. Eltoa Job■ has slipped out of Jot the answer on a postcard. include your name and address and Watford for long enough to rush it to "Smash Hits Cassette Competition". 52/55 Camaby Street, record yet another L.P. Called LONDON WlV IPF. On April I. the magic mitt will delve deep into "Jump Up", produced by Chris the mailbag and the first 25 correct replies will win their senders a Thomas and ava:i!C1ble from early tape-shaped treat. April, it sees Reg digging back to his roots. He's joined by his first ever band: Dee Murray on bass, YOU NEED SPANOS Davey Johnstone on guitaz and Spa ndaa Ballet never do difference! Nigel Olsson on drums. It's Watch out Marhn Rushen!. things by halves. You can now The Spands are also preceded by a single, ''Blue Trevor Horn is snapping hard get their latest LP. "Diamond" as undertaking an undercover jaunt Eyes," released on March 12. at your heels. Trov, the goggles a limited edition of four If around the isle starting late behind The Buggies. 1s rapidly singles. March and ending up at Brighton The Image-conscious among you becoming today's most wanted "Chant No. l" and "Paint Me Conference Centre on April 30 will be heartened to hear that producer. He's been working Down" are described as "special and Bournemouth Winter Alte re d Images are stepping with Dollar now for some time dance mixes" while "Coffee Gardens on May l. out on a whistle-stop tour of the and has just put the final touches Club" and "Instinction" are Before that it's the North and nation's party parlours. For when to their latest 45, "Give Me Back merely "dance mixes". Cough up Scotland, but they're not saying and where: see Nightsout. My Heazl". (The B-side, funnily £9.99 and you can discover the where. enough is called "Pink And ..., have called it a - TZ BITZ BITZ BIT Blue". They must be this season's The Freshie s -- new colours. The new Altered day, and we can only assume Images' album is "Pinky Blue"). they mean it. ABC's Hom-honed nugget, The Mancunian pranksters "Poison Arrow", is polevaulting have enjoyed what's commonly \ known as "a chequered career". up the charts. And, rumour has They've possibly been rejected it, Orange Juice and even Wah! are thinking of employing the by more record companies and Horn handiwork. written more songs with very silly titles than anybody!
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Repr by pulnloion~by~~!~ .,.,._,"'!J ,en Vertlgo:~6 21 "It's like a tribal thing," say Iron Maiden, headbangers' heroes. Karen Schlosberg examines the lasting appeal of heavy metal. i . Whether you like it or not, Heavy want to call it, couldn't give a toss hair is for. The better to ba g 1 Metal music is not going to go about current fashion, past your head with, my dear. a Ori9'nally put f!on away. For some reason, it's fashion or future fashion. What "A headbanger is just a y ~attMendof always had a bad reputation. they're looking for is a form of who's into hard rock ~ifteavy He fii'lt came acrQf9 the Some basic HM myths are: all the music that's really exciting, that's metal," explains Br~c•-~'1t's • '"""'-~ ..an "sffecttonete" bands sound alike; and look alike technically competent, great to term of affection, a 6if'Qf • tenri fdr • ..,,..ievllfnalrument of all their fans are greasy, dirty, watch and also occasionally nickname, just tongue#ln-ct)eek. tortunf. Whitt watching the long-haired, leather-and-denim, comes up with the odd insight. It's not supposed to be taken ol'iafnMftlm ~rsion of "The Mari patch-encrusted, beer-swilling Not too many-nobody's seriously. Those peoplRon) go In TM Iron M.. k," and filed It violent yobbos; all HM songs are making any political statements, around banging theji-ti~dl\ into IWll\'for reference. The offensive, fascist and sexist; and but occasionally somebody brick walls. The't~•qhV?f~,1!18 did the occssional all the band members are too writes a song like 'Stairway To 60-year-o!d col_onejJn:iagi,igJ@ tiative East London thick to be interested in anything Heaven,' and those songs go on herds of httle kids \i~$,I afound phaschanged but music, alcohol, drugs and and become a part of the culture bashing their hlij3~IJHl bridl ••uincethen, Bruce women and partying. of rock music. They're classics." walls because he riidiil&utit in being dlit tncM recent addition' Face it. Every type of music has When he talks you could the Daily Mail is rd:=lyfunny." afttrtht ...... lly agreed UPon its own stereotype. Styles of almost forget that Iron Maiden's "Alotofit'sjust mptn9 cleplrlufeeffS.ul Dl'Anno, lead music you aren't familiar with or songs are likely to have titles like around, getting o renion,'' slnoe,on 'afimtwo don't like tend to sound alike. Be "Killers," "Purgatory," and says Steve. "You sh9"'your albums), It hard to get it disco, synthesizer, New · "Wrathchild,'' and the live show head in time to the-m_klsic instead wo,1f,;I gfyharda11m Romantic, rock and roll or punk, includes the appearance of two of tapping your feet.' rolled...., and ti,ey realised there's always someone devils, wearing red rompers and "It's having good ful\ I!'.• a that wtlltttitVh84to conttmd criticising a movement for being complete with horns and trident; release," continues Bn/pe. •• with wn thtegptoalon qt punk. mindless, for sounding the same, and of course there's Eddie. something I did instinctive! At one point th1iy were- for having offensive lyrics, for Eddie is their grotesque and when I was 14 and saw my first inappropriately booked at an creating hordes of look-alike fans. rather perturbing ghoul of a heavy rock band. It struck me as ultra-punk venue with an Heavy Metal hasn't been mascot who looks a bit like the quite a sensible thing to do. You ultra-punk band. The Maiden in fashionable in over ten years. It's melting faces of the villains in didn't really want to square all Innocence went to see one of not intellectual. You can't dance "Raiders Of The Lost Ark." But dance to it, or disco dance, or any the band's gigs before their to it. It's not played on the radio that's all part of the comic book other form of gyration. It's like a appointed joint venture, then, not or in the clubs. But there's atmosphere that is undoubtedly tribal thing, if you like a bit of a surprisingly, cancelled. "All those obviously something there when one of the charms Heavy Metal war dance." kids spitting at them," recalls a band like Iron Maiden can get a holds for its largely male, As for the requisite leathers Steve with distaste. single close to the Top 10, and teenage audience. and denims, Steve at first passes They persevered, eventually whose first two albums, "Iron "I think most blokes don't off the suggestion that the recording a demo tape to help get Maiden" and "Killers", went Top really grow up," says Steve with headbangers' gear might be just the attention of agents who ---5-and.Tpp-10..ril&PGCliVIH ~t--abit-of a~.·naJ tone. a.¥ muc:b-Ql.a-1~hion as some of wouldn't travel to see them. The Tbeflrttthioo you noJl,ce about "lbeVehVaY8...... tobe. ,..., ffle'IGDDfer dy bands have, tape was successful in its original lbefivi~r•oftron Mai_, 11Cltiqn bCimfct or l'blntdtittf. U.ili\l4tM iden dislike so purpose, and the band decided to when~IO•~• release it as a single, which sold ...... ~.it9 . been wearing out Its first pressing in less than a ~mentThe Jf:,. .. YoU migllttlOtice is rts for how many week. ~ teve. "Leather 1979, and Heavy Metal was st practical wear, once again coming into its own, auses, then gaining momentum from the might be fashion, ground up, as the Maiden did. point where Ever on the make, record up with companies were soon sniffing ing to look like a around the new heavy bands, u tend to go and Iron Maiden signed with EMI when you're and went on to release two e 13, 14, 15, best-selling albums while touring ys have to belong incessantly and untiringly. whether it's Their third album, called "The nks or whatever. Number Of The Beast," is about that you go to be released, and they have ou grow out of it recently embarked on an u want. Music 18-country, nine-month-long eo,li t music. It's nice word tour. The Beast is, of in music p e, but the fashion course, the Devil, and his re interested in fas y bands go over number, as all you "Omen" fans er Bruce Dickinson say , , . Unless they know. is 666. This becomes sipping at a cup of hot chocola scale. , hange w it he times they'll die particularly significant when in his Leicester hotel room after we've go when the fashion dies." looking at a car accident producer an exhausting but successful gig. following Iron Maiden don't have to Martin Birch had while mixing Both he and bass player Steve tour." worry about the passing fancies the new LP. His bill for damages Harris are fighting off bo11ts offlu, On the whole the crowd is quiet of the music world. As Steve came to £666.66. On top of that. and guitarist Dave Murray soon. and well-behaved, reacting with points out, the fashion bands' the man in the other car was a politely excuses himself from the enthusiasm but no hysteria, just public is largely a singles buying member of some sort of religious interview to be sick. "Most lots of V-signs and the public, whereas the Heavy Metal order. Birch, relates Steve, "had people who are into heavy rock, ever-present head-swinging, public buys albums, and it's the bill changed to £667. I'm not heavy metal music, whatever vou which is, of course. what the long albums that sustain a band's saying he necessarily believed in 22 · . Jron ~ (left to rlghtl: ~ive Burr (drums). Adrian Smith (guitar), Dave Murray (guitar). Bruce Dickinson (vocals) and Steve Hams (bass). . ' ·-- - ... ·. ...!J .. "they're far mote ihto thatsortof the ou iia 'ffi>ard~Ifs fOst an perhaRs I do, because i~cared st,uffthlitn we are. We don't inter,est, or fascination, lf you like. me a blt. I don't thil'lk twould like pra,ctis!Jwifohcraft,"' he,qulcklyw I'm not sure Icompletely flelfeve enytt,lng llke that to e11er happen · ~ds, smi.ing "W$'d9" t all sit13~ it10t not. I sup:oose in,a wav t,o 01e." £.en Toacla Toa (Clarpalb) JAPAK: Gbosts (V'lrtrla) CIIIIISTOPHJ:11 CIIGa: Produced, like Visage, by the Japan are a mystery to me. After ....., Be Tbe8ame (WEA) tireless Midge Ure but beyond being a standing joke for years ·Having finally broken through that there's not much else to be the{ came right into fashion in with "Arthur's Theme", Cross is said for it. Pleasant, colourless 198 , built up a large following threatening to do a Kraftwerk and a far cry from his hits of the (witness the polls) but still didn't and have hit singles with lots of 70s. sell very many recotds. And all old material. Unlike Kraftwerk. the while they sounded awfully however, Cross is not a brilliant lilce Roxy Music. That cannot be innovator who was five years aaid of "Ghosts" and it's ahead of his time but a rather arguably the best thing they've dull, laid-back, easy-listening done - slow, spare and merchant with a whiney voice mesmelising. whose huge success shows you what is wrong with the American music business. Having said BOB MAIILET 11111> THE that, the song's not bad. WAILERS: Natmal Mystic (lslcaul) A foretaste of the Island DEXY'S MIDNIGHT film "Countryman", an excellent RUWIIEIISAJID THE song and a poignant reminder of EN£IUU.D EDIIESS: Tbe Bob Marley's genius. Celtic Soal Brothen (llell'Cllrl'J Line-ups come and BILL WYMAII: Jl Kew line-ups go but the Dexys' sound Faldoa (A&II) The most doesn't change; this is another surprising discovery of the past winner from the "Geno" stable - Reviewed by year was no one-hit wonder. This commercial, danceable and with Tim De Lisle will sell even better than "Je Suis the added bonus of the Un Rock Star". It's a authentically Celtic fiddles of medium-paced, summery The Emerald Express. ~ number with pithy lyrics and an unforgettable melody. "A new EARTH WDID & 1'111£: fashion, a new style/Will keep Wanna Be Wilh You (CBS) things ticking for a while/And an The charms of EW&F are usually inch is better than a mile/In the lost on me but this third single right direction"... not for from their album "Raise" is a nothing do they call him Rhymin' pleasant surprise, an excellent Wyman. melody given a fresh jazzy GIUUUUII PARKER: treatment. BAIIBIUl BTREISAIID: Tempor--, •-~(RCA) Memory (CBS) If imitation is Parker is one of those people who SMOKEY ROBINBOK: Tell the sincerest form of flattery rarely make a bad record but NeTomorrow Elaine Paige must be feeling rarely gets into the charts. This pretty chuffed. The Streisand (Motown)IDON McLEAN: one is slow, designed for the CastlH In Tbe Air (ENI) It version of Lloyd Webber's classic American market and rather like may have escaped your notice BIN: Factory (Swerve) Much is a carbon copy of hers. Hardly Any Trouble's "Girls Are Always necessary but I for one will be that this Sunday (21st) is Mother's of the chart music of recent Right". Enjoyable but nothing Day . . . and iJ you can't afford months has been exciting, good happy to see it back in the charts. special. flowers one of these should go for dancing. well-produced down a treat with Mum. Haircut 100 are an obvious KuDOS rOIIITS: Nlgbl of Mellow, mild and melodious, example - but very little of it Ille Loag Ka.lYfl (DEB) neither finds its maker at his best has been powerful. "Factory" is Promising newcomers dept. but both are thoroughly all four things at once. Brilliant Kudos Points (five students h orn pleasant. - but so far only Peter Powell Oxford) may not have a great seems to have realised it. name but that never did Altered XTC: Ball And Claain Images any harm and this first ('llrgin) Now here's a good ~ single is a catchy, well-arranged band . . . but a disappointing slab of white reggae, featuring follow-up to "Senses Worlcing ALTERED IMAGES: Bee some accomplished drumming Overtime". It starts well but Tbose Eyes (Epic) As usual and sax-playing. doesn't go anywhere much and David Band's cover is almost ends up as the lcind of song you worth £1.20on its own - and it admire but don't greatly enjoy. needs to be, as the record is a ADAM AND THE AIITS: disdppointment. Rushent's MATHEMAffQUES Friencls (Do II) A track from the production, Clare's candy-floss MODEIUIES: Disco Roagh 'Dirk Wears White Sox" sessions, i•·, vocals and a competent (C.Ualold) Certainly the previously unreleased and with ? performance from the band can't trendiest single of the week and good reason. The music is best disguise the thinness of the song. one of the best. An irresistible desaibed as pedestrian, the No doubt it will make the Top 20 ba.ckbeat reminiscent of Giorgio lyrics as painfully unfunny, the but Altered Images should do Moroder is punctuated by female whole exercise as distasteful. U better than that. Now if the title vocals reminiscent of no-one in this is a hit they might as well had the word 'happy' in it . . . particular, tinkly keyboards and put out a record of Adam short sharp shots of funky horn. brushing his teeth - someone VISAGE: The 0-ed Don't The first French number one somewhere would buy it. 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In their set Halrcu,s" c:ablni,t, we found a bottle of they inchlde'$ongs wit-h such · streakir,th,en chang!J,d btck f6 ''Nfttfe's Lite" which Martln uses titles ,s_i_A Long Tin:ie Ago Wh,en Where did Lei Nemes, ti'apist blond and currently it's resting at to brighten up the fluffy, front qits Things vvere Sf~ange" and with HaJtcut One Hundrtd, get orange,wfth brown,streJks. The of hfahair. "AogellfC't"ying". Virgil}ia Astley, that swell1er he's sportlpj 1., the original cotour underneath Is the lead 1inger, was trained at fhe centretprnd of lssu• Feb '187 brown. Do.the HIN of 12" singles get Guildhall Schoof ol M,islc and ,;oward, Brighton. locludecl In the singles ch,m, plays f(Qte, sa,c anp piapo. $tie VVetrac«id the said item to'the Recently :rtle ~aocl•t" and .,.CUMtte Hies countect as h¥ atso worked with Rfchartl menswear departmenl of •PA,erecl.on ''F,tfdey Nltht, part of the album ch■ rts7 Jobson, providing an Barnabys Pavilion, Kensington SaturdayMomlng" and whq. 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LAYLA What'II you do if you get lonely And nobody's waiting by your side You've been running and hiding much too ong V:ou know it's just your foolish pride Chorus ,- J..ayla you got me on rny knees Layla I'm begging darling please Layla darling won't you ease my wol'(ied mind I tried tg_giVe'you-tonsolatiQn When your old man he let 01,1 dbwn L1Jce a fool I fell in love withyou Tumed my whole world upside do'4n Repeat chorus Let's make the best of the situation Before I finally go insane Please don't say we'll never find a way And tell me all my love's in vain Repeat chorus to fade Words.and music by Eric Clapton/Jim pordon Reprocluc:H by per,mission Throat Music Ltd./Chappetf Music Ltd. 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Never let your feeling9'get you down Open up your eyes and look arQ,U lt'tl just an ilh.1sio Ooh ooh ooh ooh a aha illusio Ooh ooh ooh ooh aaha illusion Ct\on, Could it batftat it's just an il!usio Putting m(I back in a1IJhis ~nfu~io Could itbe that tt·s-just itn illuslo Nliw Repeat choru Could It be a picture in my min Nevei;,sure exactly what I'll fln Onfy in my dreams I tu:rn you o Here for just a moment then you're gon It's just an illusio Ooh ooh ooh ooh aaha illul!iiO Ooh ooh ooh ooh aaha illusio Words and music by Jolley/Swain/John Ingram Reproduced by permission Red Bus Music (International) Ltd. On R&B Records 37 ,, ••• ACROSS 1 'I Wanna Be A Winner' hit-makers (5,5) DOWN 7 Type of Mode we're familiar I A Lout O'Lurker ija:nd plays with! 'llacto VN Sedatein'(anag. 8 The elements - and an ace 4.5.1.2,4) soul group (5,4,3,4) 2, •s.-Working-·······' 12 •--•·-···•Blowing Bubbles' 3 Whom, rudeMissMoo?-seli (West Ham United and dfferlptive title byKra:ftwerlc Cockney Rejects) (2. 7) (anag. 8,7) 13 Dave's sidekick A Dam•··•-Everqge 14 Kind of Purple that produced 5 Not a place of learning for ~ line hard rock bard of hearing but the band 16 Ideal gYOup for hospital which ■pawned !Jette Bright radio? (2,4) (4,6) 18 See 29 across 6 Meat Loaf's mate on hi1 recent 21 Aussie headbangers (1.1, l, 1) aingle 22 His real name's Reg DwightI 9 and 11 'SilverDream Rai:er' 25 I milk dew - a singer with a man(S,S) famous dad (anag. 3,5) 10 CompereRoyof'GetltTogetbei:' 26 One becomes a Roxy Music 15 'Brau ln ••-·-··',(Pretenders) founder-member (anag. 3) 17 ' •••••••• Of The Lost Ark', a 27 Murray or Nightingale? thrill-a-minute movie 29 and 18 Band that grew out of 19 Ritchie Blackmore'• Joy Division (3,5) multi-coloured heavie1 30 Where The Mobiles were 20 -ni. ····Ranger drowning 23 Number of polee in a Tudor? 31 Oddball group who once 24 Antt••·····~ re-jigged 'Satisfaction' 28 'Papa's Got A Brand New ...... ' 32 ' ••• Your Mother Down' 31 'Tin ••••·, Joi?an's latest a'l.bum (Queen) 32 'Arthur's••···' 33 Kenny of 'Coward Of The ' 34 Kool baa one County' fame 35 •••WowWov, 37 No. 1 for Abba in '77 (4,2,3.4) 36 Band &om 2 dowu 39 ... 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Q__ , 52 Plecne could you tell me whether Did you know that, during the home-taping has been banned or singing ol "Tainted Love", Marc not. And. U so, why? Some Almond swaps bands with the records l buy say: "No microphone 14 times? Home-Taping" whereas others Tbe purple person you ,aw three say nothing. I remember seeing daysago. IOIDething on the television about it and that record Twollttle ...... companies have been complaining that less and less I heard Gary Numan's "Music For people were buying records due Chameleons" the other day and I to home-taping. Therefore they was disgusted with it. First, the blamed lt on the public. introduction sounds like I mean. do you blame us something off Japan's "Tin Drum" people for taping off the TV and LP. Secondly. the voice is velf radio? Let's face it, it's the only reminiscent of Japan'• lead thing you can do the~ days as singer, the talented and very records are so expensive. I'm gorgeous David Sylvian. sure U they lowered the price a Once the song gets started. the little more would be bought. crashing drum beat reminds me E. Baldwin, Binningham. very much of Japan's recent Smash Hila Lett•ra extended mix of "European Son". 52-55 Camaby StrNt London WlV lPF No._.y woald W.... 'fOII, and the baas guitar is in the £5 record tobn tor moat WOD-derlul letter. E.,lnlttlaelactls.._. excellent style of Japan's Mick ...... _T..... &Ulqal. Kam. • ....-...... olaayoae And thus I am forced to ask Dear Mr Glenn Gregory, While watching TOTP last week I pttlqcaag•t.mbul. myself: is this a coincidence? I I would like very much to give was really shock.d to - have leans that the song la an you a kick in the teeth. But you l0INth.ing bl a leopard-skin attempt by Gary Numan to jump probably wouldn't dare show up loincloth ~oacb the ecreen at Yes, ""TheRoclcAndPopAwards" on Japan's bandwagon. so 111 just tell you off instead. I top~ was just getting ate over for another year. Phew! Yours faithfully but am absolutely seething at your ready to leap out of the way in Dave Lee Travis and Sue Cook disgustedly. defini1ely look like being the next foolish, unrealistic quote that CON ita bniba failed when Gillian Ogden, Manchester. Dollar. ffanyone who says he doesn't someone told me it was Nick want to be famous must be either Heyward of Haircut One Thomcu Innes, BetcbWOltb. I don't mind if Martin Fry is shy. daft or a liar". Hundred! Please ask him to marry me. I'm Well, Mr Knowall. you can just My shock was immediately 18, so I am old en.ough. get lost because I would hate to twned to anger. TbeBBC Jackie, King's Lynn. be rich and/or famous. I am actuallr allowed him not only to neither "daft" nor a "liar". appear in the Yldeo wearing only It ...ms your wonderful . According to me you can stuff hi• loincloth. but lo swing in the maga:dne is reaching all corner• / your fame and money in an tr-s reveawag practicolly of the world. For this evening I unspeakable place. I think everything be'a got. turned on my telenaion to watch anyone with fame and money i1 Why. ill-that CG88, did they ban Coronation Street and find Rita changed by it; they become Spandau'1 '"Paint Me Down' Fairclough'• newfriend studying bjgheaded and forget what it la video for being too revealing? tbe IIICIIJGSine rar:ltcoataining an like to have to save up for a pair Eapeciallr as tbe 6'" heroes only iaue ol Smmh Hlta which I of shoes. I totally despise appear as silhouettes in the found to be dated RoYamber 12th eveyYone who is rich and [ want distance! 1!111. Toucouldn'taaklorbetter to stick with the lower class - If there's anrcme out there who advertitring thcro tbo1. Mind you. the majority - all my life. So you understanda the BBC . .. she didn't lcnow much about know wbat you can do with your Martin Kemp• loi.ocloth. mule though did abe? She was "quotes". Shanklin. W. Of W-Jgbt. suppoeed to be aortiDg out the Louise, Sheffield. racords but from the co...-of Benao■ Ne.l... clDIIL Madneu' Hft Mid\ Be Love" abe That'• die way to pt a TbeS.... wwelladly took a l'IICOld wbic:b when put on letten pap oll. Bript, Ind.It fw IN I ••-· tbe l'IICOld pla_,-90IIDdecl a ....._:ay ... optimistic! tMDJ bit libJapan's "European Wlaat's next? After readioq your article on Son . Radio One. I was greatly Can't ...11 somehow. Poul Howden. Tunbridge Wells. I'm absolutely livid! Enraged! surprised to find out just how Incensed! I've just watched TOTP much work go. into eoch and seen the Haircut One programme. I think •ftll'One What a joke that long-awaited l'lnl--~ ■ •-~---,... Hundred video for "Love Plus should undentand bow carefully programme, 'The British Rock ...... One". Now I don't want to pick an the records are Nlected and And Pop Awards", was. Half the llw ...... ,~.11 old bone. but remember how the what a great mil~ a record winnexa didn't even have the .,...... Spandau video for "Paint Me can have on people. I don't know decency to tum up. Having sent ...... Downff was banned 'cos they aboutanyooeel.N. butnI my votes away and having long were wearing loincloths (at long certainly appreciate the music on anticipated the award-giving distance). 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